Consultation on explicit consent
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In this request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u...
You stated that you had consulted with stakeholders regarding the "explicit consent" policy in Universal Credit.
Please provide copies of all consultation documents discussing information provision to claimant advisers & representative; alternatively please provide a link to the consultation as I can't find anything obvious on the publications index.
Yours faithfully,
Dan Manville
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Consultation on explicit consent'.
In your reply you state "We have discussed this issue at several Universal Credit stakeholder engagement meetings, including the Strategic Landlord Forum, the Scottish Landlord Forum, the Local Authority Engagement forum and Citizens Advice liaison workshops"
Please provide the minutes of those meetings. I doubt collating those minutes from your stakeholder engagement team would exceed the cost limit.
Yours faithfully
Dan Manville
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Dan Manville
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Consultation on explicit consent'.
In your reply you state "We have discussed this issue at several Universal Credit stakeholder engagement meetings, including the Strategic Landlord Forum, the Scottish Landlord Forum, the Local Authority Engagement forum and Citizens Advice liaison workshops"
Please provide the minutes of those meetings. I doubt collating those minutes from your stakeholder engagement team would exceed the cost limit.
Yours faithfully
Dan Manville
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Dan Manville
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Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,
“DWP claim to have carried out a consultation with stakeholders regarding their new policy but now claim producing the consultation documents would breach the costs limit. I struggle to comprehend how a single consultation’s documents would not be kept in one place; to claim it would breach the cost limit seems perverse to me. My request was for minutes of meetings i.e. existing documents. I cannot understand how it could take the DWP more than 3.5 days to identify the relevant meetings and locate the minutes of those meetings.
I have tried to refine my request as suggested. Please provide the minutes of the meetings of the Strategic Landlord Forum, the Scottish Landlord Forum, the Local Authority Engagement forum and Citizens Advice liaison workshops held between January 2016 and March 2018, at which the policy on explicit consent in Universal Credit was discussed, and any associated materials provided to the attendees of those meetings, or discussed at the meetings, about the policy on explicit consent. If these minutes and papers are already publicly available, please direct me to where I can access them.”
Yours sincerely,
Dan Manville
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
You can expect a reply by 23 April 2018 unless I need to come back to you to clarify your request or the balance of the public interest test needs to be considered.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Strategy FoI Team
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If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office for a decision. Generally the Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
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Yours sincerely
DWP Strategy FoI Team
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Dan Manville left an annotation ()
Just in case anyone's watching this I am in discussion with people about a complaint to the ICO in this matter. I expect to file the complaint next week.